A year ago, /function1 was a one-day curated gathering of 600 people.
In late 2025, it became a two-day conference with three stages, 150+ speakers, and 10,000+ attendees from 141 countries - that’s 72% of the whole world!
In just 11 months, we have grown 16x in scale, becoming one of the most rapidly growing tech conferences in the world. Today, we are more than just an event: a full-fledged ecosystem where the AI world gathers to communicate, exchange ideas, and evolve.
The growth happened fast. The impact is real. And this is only the start.
it's similar to how marketplaces just start selling most sold items by themselves, killing the original seller. with ai labs - it's even more easier for them - use your dev team + ai to build anything - sell tokens. Marketplaces have to build a whole logistics process, ai labs don't need all of that. easy
@RihardJarc tbh i have been waiting for this. knowing how good meta ads are for business, i hope their agents will be top notch for advertisers too. btw, heard this news on 24/7 ai news radio, fully run by ai. clicked the sources to say thanks! https://t.co/4TzqZUwWDj
@StockSavvyShay let's see what spacex, openai and anthropic will show us. probably will just prove the point :) btw, we are covered gtc taipei + everyday ai news 24/7 on the radio, fully run by ai: https://t.co/4TzqZUwWDj
@Polymarket probably because of tech companies hiring more devs globablly to ship more with AI :) covering that here, 24/7 ai news radio, fully run by ai https://t.co/4TzqZUwWDj
@zerohedge i think that's a 50/50 bet on his side. If he's right - he will say "i told you", if he's wrong - he's just wrong. meanwhile, we are just building and listening to the news haha :) https://t.co/4TzqZUwWDj
@PolymarketMoney agents are everywhere. we even see agents listening to our AI news radio and probably sending people daily summaries haha https://t.co/4TzqZUwWDj
@Gemini ai is making billionaires rich like never before. mukesh ambani's jiostar (india's richest man streaming platform) - going fully AI now for example. definitely to make more money :) https://t.co/4TzqZUwWDj
@ycombinator congrats! amazing stuff. will def covering it here, at our startups & capital radar - 24/7 ai news radio, fully run by ai https://t.co/4TzqZUwWDj
alibaba voice model took #1 on speech arena – 24 elo over google.
microsoft dropped a 14b model – fully local, no cloud, no token costs.
ambani's ai series hit 6.5m views day one – 2x the platform's average.
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7 of 16 top ai labs shipped a model in may 2026
• may 5 – gpt-5.5 (@OpenAI)
• may 8 – ring-2.6-1t (@TheInclusionAI)
• may 18 – composer 2.5 (@cursor_ai)
• may 19 – gemini 3.5 flash (@Google)
• may 20 – qwen 3.7 max (@AlibabaGroup)
• may 28 – opus 4.8 (@AnthropicAI)
• may 28 – step 3.7 flash (@StepFun_ai)
9 labs released no new llm in may: deepseek, xai, meta, kimi, xiaomi, z ai, minimax (m3 was released on june 1st), mistral, tencent
the ones sitting out may are not behind – deepseek, xai, and kimi all shipped in april. the calendar gap is less about who's slow and more about who's next
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